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The great software debate: Buying vs building solutions
In this week's episode, we're joined by Kyle Rockman, Platform Engineering Lead at OpsLevel, to discuss how companies can develop a framework to approach the build vs. buy decision.
Creating an effective software catalog
On the latest episode of Level Up, we delve into developing top-notch software catalogs and their essential role in scaling engineering teams. Ezra Cohen, OpsLevel's first-ever Customer Success Manager, joined us to share his insights on this crucial aspect of software management and the good, bad and ugly of the catalogs he has seen.
Scaling engineering teams: Insights from Amplitude's EVP of Engineering
This week, we’re joined by Shadi Rostami, the Senior and Executive Vice President of Engineering at Amplitude to discuss empowering your development teams in an environment where you will win or lose based on product quality.
The power of the developer portal: Insights from Groupon
Seth shares his experience leading Groupon's journey from monolith to microservices and the internal developer portal built during this migration. Seth provides an incredible overview of Groupon’s current success and how this portal has leveraged their scale-up journey. He dives into how ownership definitions and assignments have changed, the way that clean data has enabled more automation, and how they’ve used all of this to strengthen and clarify SLOs.
Aligning developer experience initiatives to business outcomes
Elliot Graebert, Director of Engineering at Skydio, shares his insights and experiences in building teams at Palantir and the need to always tie your programs back to the needs of the business. Often, we can get caught up in the excitement of a project, but miss the larger picture. Which is why Elliot details the best ways to handle high and low performers, his strategy around developing new services and killing old ones and the struggles of trying to build an internal developer portal.
Reactive programming and fintech challenges with Tamir Dresher
Get ready to level up your development game with our latest episode featuring reactive programming guru Tamir Dresher, Head of Architecture at Payoneer. Tamir shares his insights on reactive programming and how to build reactive applications and reactive systems. He also explores how this paradigm allows Payoneer to build with a zero-downtime mindset, while handling millions of users in hundreds of countries — each with differing regulations and technical requirements.